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Alternative name: Long-Toed Pigeon

Columba trocaz

[edit] Identification

42–45 cm. Grey, pink breast, silvery neck patch, red toes, white strike on the tail and red bill. The female is a little smaller than the male but it is not easy to distinguish them.

[edit] Distribution

Madeira.

[edit] Taxonomy

[edit] Habitat

Caves and on mountains in the laurel forest zone.

[edit] Behaviour

It breeds in caves and 1 white egg is laid in a nest on a ledge. Both sexes incubate the egg and feed the young.

The diet includes the berries of the laurel trees and the leaves and flowers of other small plants; it also takes cabbages.

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